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by beepbooptheory 1mo ago
Haha well good looking out! The sensationalism of these pop sci articles is out of control!
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by beepbooptheory 1mo ago
Hmm OK. If it's just that, it's a little hard here to see what you imagine we might think from the headline otherwise? If the 'machine' above is just hypothetical, what else? Is it that we might think the 'Harvard
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by beepbooptheory 1mo ago
What is a better term or qualification they could have used?
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by beepbooptheory 1mo ago
Feel very grateful I was never taught this... Would have missed out on quite a lot of good bodies of text in my life I think! Pushing through any initial friction or ignorance I might have as a reader, having the patience and charity to be
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by beepbooptheory 1mo ago
I guess I am maybe not coming from the same place you are here, but, fwiw, scores for classical guitar will often mark bare positions (basically, what fret your 1 finger is around) at certain points with Roman numerals, which then communi
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
OK got it, I guess I am just not quite sharp enough to follow the strong argument here! Thanks for trying either way.
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
The first example is not a prediction at all?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Why would one ever predict anything at all if it was always falsifiable? Do you mean like eventually falsifiable? Like, I don't know about you, but I tend to go ahead and do any falsifying of something first if possible, before I reso
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Is 'tired' here in scare quotes or are you referencing something? And if it wasn't faster from the get-go, how did it address the fatigue?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
They point out the time constraint issue explicitly in the article. But I don't understand how it's been addressed? Like we haven't gotten conclusive data any faster either way, so what's the point? How can it be both so
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
> I don’t think the distortion is that large, but yes METR warns that Sol may be presenting all this as more impressive or coordinated than it was. OK but like, how large exactly? Like I guess I don't understand the mode I am supp
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Maybe one use case is if you are interfacing with external C library and you're stuck with pointers?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
If you are using whatever single concept to explain everything , you certainly aren't using it right! No reason to throw the baby out with the bath water though... Like, there is nothing intrinsic to the concept of social class (or
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Does decompiling a game made by a certain development team help decompile others made by the same people? Because you might know what patterns to look for?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
If the categories here are truly a priori , then it seems strange to mistrust them? Maybe you mean a posteriori? I think I get the angle here, but the whole thing about a single category/classification/abstraction against a conti
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Huh. Do you think the same thing about the concept of social/economic class as well? Or is it just rejecting that there is typically a struggle between them?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Kinda talking about pretty squishy things here, saying something is "patently false" in the context feels pretty stifling, or at least uncharitable. Like, what, we are all supposed to close the book on this abstract, very new ques
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
I have always been curious about the "auto-dead" blacklist of domains referenced here. I just wonder how its maintained/how big it is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354696
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
This feels like it could be right, but then maybe its just interesting that there is exactly one outlier here like this, and not more?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Just curious, what kind of work have you done where this conceit feels valid in your mind? My career, at least, feels like an exception to this, but I guess its conceivable to me that it could be otherwise. You have had a lot managers push
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
What would be a better term?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
It's Eliezer Yudkowsky so this is just on brand... I just wanna know who is still giving him money these days!
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
It doesn't even make sense, provocative is a good thing for an article to be to most people! It's nice to be moved whichever way by someone else's writing! There is an assumption on this forum I see a lot that any published
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Like what?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Plato did not throw shade on writing. This often comes up! Where are people getting this misinformation? The Phaedrus is not that long.. just read it! Also it doesn't even make sense... How could we know this without Plato writin
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
How did they make a quarter pounder out of 1/10s?
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
I don't know what to say really but you certainly give him more credit than I ever would wow! Can't think of anything else comparable to this, where one guy becomes the single de facto voice of dissent or critique. Is there any si
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
Feels maybe a little specific but I have seen a number of pieces just on HN in the past month that feel at least adjacent: - https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circul... - https://archive.
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
I too would be more likely to be a public school teacher if it paid more.
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by beepbooptheory 2mo ago
I guess I am just in a different world here... I didn't realize the stakes were about who is the one who is gonna take up the mantle of having the platform and voice to make one argument or another, and I guess there is maybe some cu

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